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...have been divine but he chose to express himself in the earthy rhythms of American hip-hop. When Jal started rapping in church, the congregation wasn't so sure. But in 2004, when he released his single Gua, on which he raps in Arabic, English, Dinka and his native Nuer, all of Kenya went crazy for it; it stayed at No. 1 there for eight weeks. Although Jal is widely described as a Christian rapper, he dreams of secular peace in Sudan, of a day "When my people will plant seed in their land/ When my people will be free...
Once treated, a patient is likely to remain immune to the disease. But the price of stopping the epidemic, which amounted to more than $1 million a year poured in by MSF-Holland, has been high in human terms as well. Of 70 Nuer and Dinka nurses trained by Seaman and the other MSF doctors, more than 75% have come down with kala-azar themselves. Five lost children to the disease...
...Nuer are clear on where they stand in the hands-on vs. hands-off debate. Chief Tongwar, one of the area's most respected head chiefs, told a recent council meeting, "Jill is like me. What I think, she knows." Then he added softly, "If you did not come here, Jill, everyone would have died. We have named many of our daughters Jill. Now we will also name our sons Jill." After Chief Tongwar finished speaking, Chief Elizabeth, representing the women in the village of Nhiadhiu, stood up. "No other doctor came to us," she said. "Only...
...thing, and to do that one thing really well." McHarg has assigned her, along with De Wit and another doctor, to a flying satellite team that roams from village to village treating kala-azar and tuberculosis. TB is a special problem today because kala-azar has so weakened the Nuer's immune system that any subsequent infection is often fatal. In August, McHarg dispatched Seaman to Ethiopia to survey a new outbreak of kala-azar. Seaman is also working on a pilot project to try out a drug for kala-azar that will cost a tenth the price of Pentostam...
...With a Nuer nurse holding the boy tightly, Seaman jabbed the IV into his arm and then, dissatisfied, pulled it out. "It's not right," she explained. The boy writhed in agony. Calmly, she inserted the needle four or five times more before she was finally sure that she had it right. At 2 a.m. she ducked back into the boy's hut to give him more medicine. In the morning, astonishingly, he was alive and smiling. The Nuer mother beamed at Seaman, and then she was gone. Seaman sat down at the camp table outside her tent, poured herself...